Arriva ‘m-tickets’ passes the million mark

Arriva UK Bus has reported more than a million tickets have been brought via its mobile phone ticketing application. In the first 18 months of operation, 40,000 users have registered to use m-ticketing, booking 1,020,181 journeys across the UK.

The free app, designed by Concept Data Technologies and Arriva, can be used on any internet-enabled mobile phone. Once the journey has been booked, an e-ticket is sent to the user’s phone. This is shown to the driver as the start of the...